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Funny, was behind enemy lines yesterday at the Clinton Global Initiative meeting in NYC--and over lunch there was a protracted hand wringing over the plight of the Ukrainian protesters, how awful the government brutality was. First thought was to bring up fact that the citizens there are largely disarmed, but that a few good riflemen would likely put the cops to flight (none seemed very enthused about their jobs in the footage I've seen). Thought the better of it--the odds, rather like Custer, would have left me as little more than a rhetorical greasy spot on the rug. But in the working sessions, clear that most of the adherents to this collectivist culture have simply lost the ability to conceive of individual rights, self defense and self determination. There are a few that have not, but not many.

The shorter answer is that OFA brownshirt recruits will not be so eager to kick down the doors of ordinary Americans if there's even a shadow of a chance that one or more of their "community organizing" crew will be going home in a bodybag.

Bringing Bill Ayers's dream of reeducation camps to fruition will take a lot more manpower than is available as police and military.

Besides the Nazi S.A. already referenced, I saw a heartbreaking interview of a Cambodian survivor of Pol Pot's killing fields when I was in high school (I have not been able to find the film or even references to it since--it may have been from French TV). The man lost his entire extended family to the commies.

The kicker is that the gang of Khmer Rouge that took him to the camps was led by a punkass kid from the neighborhood who had been a troublemaker his whole life until he was either jailed or sent away shortly before.

So, that much is done. "self defence" is "good cause" for CCW throughout the 9th circuit. Now, of course, the sheriffs can play games with "good moral character". That is pretty much a blank check for the sheriff until we get a ruling on Richards v. Prieto. These days, GMC means whatever the sheriff decides it means. The original Jim Crow era meaning in California was "Not Black, Hispanic, or Oriental.", which I hope contributes to the death of GMC.

But this government is clearly insane. Look at what they are doing to the value of the dollar, once the envy of the world. (Lenin destroyed the value of the ruble to ruin the middle class and make everyone equally poor, except the Bolshevik elite, of course.)

Really, the FCC was just acting like the ATF. And journalists screamed CONSTITUTION and FIRST AMENDMENT!!! Ok as well they should, and they are correct. Greta on Fox especially!! If only Greta would say that se thing about the ATF.

I wonder of journalists caught on to how fast they defended the First Amendment....... Set up -all of them are- set up now for blatant hypocritical musings.

"There is only one tactical principle which is not subject to change. It is to use the means at hand to inflict the maximum amount of wound, death, and destruction on the enemy in the minimum amount of time." -- Patton

"Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of the men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory." -- Patton

Anon 1201, i refer people to "What Good is a Handgun Against an Army?" by Mike Vanderboegh.

Anon 1344, "Remember the Alamo!" Fewer than 200 men held off over 4,000 for nearly two weeks. For some reason, that Spartan/Persian thing overshadows that in the minds of most, but the principles are the same, a large force threatening a much smaller force to try to disarm them.

What's most telling to me is the courage shown by the defenders in the face of certain death.

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

On the efficacy of passive resistance in the face of the collectivist beast. . .

Had the Japanese got as far as India, Gandhi's theories of "passive resistance" would have floated down the Ganges River with his bayoneted, beheaded carcass. -- Mike Vanderboegh.

In the future . . .

When the histories are written, “National Rifle Association” will be cross-referenced with “Judenrat.” -- Mike Vanderboegh to Sebastian at "Snowflakes in Hell"

"Smash the bloody mirror."

If you find yourself through the looking glass, where the verities of the world you knew and loved no longer apply, there is only one thing to do. Knock the Red Queen on her ass, turn around, and smash the bloody mirror. -- Mike Vanderboegh

From Kurt Hoffman over at Armed and Safe.

"I believe that being despised by the despicable is as good as being admired by the admirable."

From long experience myself, I can only say, "You betcha."

"Only cowards dare cringe."

The fears of man are many. He fears the shadow of death and the closed doors of the future. He is afraid for his friends and for his sons and of the specter of tomorrow. All his life's journey he walks in the lonely corridors of his controlled fears, if he is a man. For only fools will strut, and only cowards dare cringe. -- James Warner Bellah, "Spanish Man's Grave" in Reveille, Curtis Publishing, 1947.

"We fight an enemy that never sleeps."

"As our enemies work bit by bit to deconstruct, we must work bit by bit to REconstruct. Be mindful where we should be. Set goals. We fight an enemy that never sleeps. We must learn to sleep less." -- Mike H. at What McAuliffe Said

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.